Consoling ghosts [electronic resource] : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.
Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781452939858
- 1452939853
- 362.17/50973 23
- HQ1073.5.U6 L36 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.
"Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. Jean M. Langford invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds"-- Publisher's Web site.
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